The Five Senses in Nabokov's Works

Chapter 1         "'Do the Senses Make Sense?': An Introduction", Marie Bouchet, Julie Loison-Charles, Isabelle Poulin

PART I            The Role of the Senses in Nabokov's Aesthetics and Metaphysics

Chapter 2         "Do the Senses Make Sense?", Brian Boyd, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Chapter 3         "'To breathe the dust of this painted life'. Modes of Engaging the Senses in Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading", Lilla Farmasi, University of Szeged, Hungary

Chapter 5         "Developing Transnational Style: Particularities of Nabokov's Lexicon and Cognitive Frames in The Gift in Relation to the Five Senses", Lyudmila Razumova, King's College, London, UK

PART II           Crossing Sensations and Languages: Multilingualism, Memory and Intermediality

Chapter 6         "An Eden of Sensations: The Five Senses in Speak, Memory", Damien Mollaret, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, France

Chapter 7         "A Look at the Spectropoetics of Photography in Nabokov's fiction", Yannicke Chupin, University of Cergy Pontoise, France

Chapter 9         "Translating Taste and Switching Tongues", Julie Loison-Charles, University of Lille, France

Chapter 10       "Translation as Craft and Heroic Deed: On the Political Stakes of a Multilingual Sensoriality", Isabelle Poulin, University of Bordeaux-Montaigne, France

PART III          Senses and the Body: from Pleasure to Displeasure

Chapter 11        "Sensuality and the Senses in Nabokov", Maurice Couturier, University of Nice, France

Chapter 12       "The 'Eyes' Have It: The Pleasures and Problems of Scopophilia in Nabokov's Work", Julian Connolly, University of Virginia, USA

Chapter 13       "The carmen in Nabokov's Lolita", Suzanne Fraysse, University of Aix-Marseille, France

Chapter 14       "'I'd Like to Taste the Inside of Your Mouth': The Mouth as Locus of Disgust in Nabokov's Fiction", Anastasia Tolstoy, University of Oxford, UK

PART IV          Synesthesia and Multisensoriality

Chapter 16       "Neurological Synaesthesia vs Literary Synaesthesia: Can Nabokov Help Bridge the Gap?", Marie Bouchet, University of Toulouse, France

Chapter 17       "Undulations and Vibrations, Tonalities and Harmonies: Nabokov, Acoustics and the Otherworld", Sabine Metzger, Stuttgart University, Germany

Chapter 18       "Vladimir Nabokov's Musico-Literary Microcosm: "Music" and Nabokov's Quartet", Kiyoko Magome, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Chapter 19       "'Tactio has come of age': the Tactile Sense in Nabokov's Lolita, Pale Fire and Ada", Léopold Reigner, University of Rouen, France

Chapter 21       "'A Tactile Sensation is a Blind Spot': Nabokov's Aesthetics of Touch", Lara Delage-Toriel, University of Strasbourg, France